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Newdigate Colliery Arm junction with the Coventry Canal near Hawkesbury

Yesterday I mentioned that the forecast thunderstorms had not appeared.  As soon as I shut down the laptop we had a torrential rainstorm that lasted for several hourse.noticably raising the level of the canal.

This morning was dry but overcast.  After setting out we turned right at the junction with the Coventry Canal to travel two miles through the industrial town of Nuneaton to empty our waste tank at a small boatyard there. No pictures of Nuneaton I am afraid as the canal scenery, mainly of estate houses and allotments,  is of little interest.  We then turned the boat around  and headed towards Coventry, mooring back near Hawkesbury Junction at lunchtime.

This was a coal mining area and there were canal arms that went to indivual collieries. The photo shows the end of the blocked and abandoned Newdigate Colliery Arm.  The colliery itself closed in 1982.

The weather forecast for tomorrow is heavy rain for most of the day so we may not move.  We are a day ahead of schedule so there is no point in getting wet.

3 hours 20 minutes, 9.08 miles